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8 pages in length. Although the writer of this essay does not necessarily endorse the use of marijuana, (s)he agrees with the argument that it is politically-incorrect to outlaw it in the United States. Very good points are made from the history of marijuana's existence in the country as well as the similar case of alcohol prohibition during the 1920's. The writer feels that the FDA should regulate the drug so that smokers do not risk using pot that is sneakily mixed with other substances. Medical evidence of marijuana's comparatively mild effects is presented and the report concludes that the negative impacts of marijuana's ban are far worse than those that would prevail if it were allowed to be sold openly and legally. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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did not want it. If Roosevelt had realized then that the alcohol prohibition had a striking similarity to the prohibition of marijuana and other drugs, the controversy over the
legalization of marijuana might not exist today. The only things that prohibition has accomplished in the United States is the criminalization of a large number of otherwise law-abiding citizens
and the creation of a bloody drug trade which has left thousands of innocent victims dead in the streets. The prohibition continues though, kept alive by government propaganda used
to legitimize their actions. It is now time for the government to clean its hands of the harm that has already been done and legalize marijuana once and for
all. During the late 1930s, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) released reports that people under the influence of marijuana would erupt in violent rages and other forms of
antisocial behavior. Oddly, in the early 1930s, the FBN denied marijuana use was a problem and did not support a federal law. There was no clear motive or reason
for this change of opinion, but FBN reports largely orchestrated the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act. The idea that marijuana caused violence arose from the stereotypical marijuana users
at that time which consisted of Mexican laborers and other lower class groups. During the Great Depression, jobs were few and the Mexican labor surplus was extremely unappreciated.
Jerome Himmelstein, researcher of the history of marijuana prohibition wrote " . . . jailing Mexicans on marijuana charges became part of a general attempt to reduce the labor surplus,
and an anti-marijuana ideology became one way of unifying and giving legitimacy to the anti-Mexican sentiments of various social groups (28)." The fact is that people do not erupt
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